white terrorist who plotted attack on ny mosque avoids terror charge, found guilty on four related counts

A white Tennessee man named Robert Doggart will not face terrorism charges for plotting an attack on a mosque in upstate New York. Doggart was arrested in April 2015 when law enforcement learned that he had been attempting to recruit people to burn down a mosque in the self-named, Muslim majority community of “Islamberg“, an enclave outside of Hancock, NY. The NY Daily News reports that attorneys say the reason Doggart wasn’t charged as a terrorist “because federal terrorism statutes almost exclusively focus on foreign extremists.”